Basics first! Checklist for monitoring AWS.

Andreas Wittig – 31 Aug 2018

Monitoring your cloud infrastructure is key for reliability, security, and efficiency. Before you think about buying and installing a fancy and expensive (application) monitoring solution make sure you got the basics of monitoring AWS covered.

I’ve derived the following monitoring checklist from my AWS Monitoring Primer. The prioritized list includes all parts of a basic monitoring setup for AWS.

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